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UGH I hate when stupidity costs me $$
So I bought some address labels for our X mas cards last night at staples to the tune of about $27. Took them home, hubs printed one sheet to test, and the got all smeared looking. He tells me, so I take a look and print one more test sheet, they look fine coming out, but then as I print 2 more (still going slow to test everything) they start to smear. IN my genius I decide it's because the sheets are touching and smearing the one below it as they emerge from the printer, so I grab each one as they come out and hand them to hubs so he can place them on the desk to dry. This seems to work, so I continue with the rest of the 8 pages of labels we have to print. We think they are dry and take them out in our family room so we can watch some holiday movie or something and stuff and stick. Well by the time we get to them out there, they are totally blurred again. Now we are out of labels. , so I'm annoyed and accuse hubs of rubbing them together ashe brought them out form the office to the family room.
Any way, after much debate about whether or not it's worth it; today after work I return to staples. While there I am confronted with the fact there there are indeed TWO types of lables. one for LASER printers and one for INK JET printers. Oh yes, they are totally VERY CLEARLY labeled and YEAHHHH.... Guess which kinda mine were, and what kind of printer we have ?!
makes sense that real "ink" would mess up on a label meant for a laser printer . Anyway. That is my story of a wasted $30 and 100 address sticker labels.
Anyway this turned into a very long that could be summed up as,
Next year, we hand address. 
Re: UGH I hate when stupidity costs me $$
I'm sorry you dealt with that. When I worked at a copy center I learned that you can use a laser printers with either laser or inkjet paper since on the inkjet paper, there's no special coating designed to "protect" the paper from the fusing. But with inkjet printers, it's wet ink that needs to dry so the coating on laser paper will make it smear.
Believe me, it's a common mistake. I hope everything works out OK though.
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I detest hand addressing envelopes - like a hate it. So much that even though we had a "budget" wedding I paid someone to address the invites (I had done the save the dates and was so frustrated).
So we mail merge and print the address and return address directly on the envelopes - easy and cheaper since you A) don't need labels and
only run each envelope through once.
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